PROJECTS

Antony Martin’s first house flipped the conventions of the suburban home, orienting living spaces to the street. Antony reflects on the lessons learnt from this formative project.

Evolving and refining the forms of our coastal towns’ once-ubiquitous housing stock, this new residence celebrates an enduring affection for the unassuming beach shack.

This inventive solution to a client request for more living space – converting an existing garage into “a little house” – became the first in a series of incremental interventions to a suburban home. It was also the first collaborative residential project for Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco.

Encircling the ruins of the site’s past dwellings, lost to fire, this robust and elegant residence in Victoria’s Central Highlands creates a lasting legacy for a multigenerational family.

Underpinned by a thoughtful balance of pragmatism and craft, this simple but spatially intriguing terrace adaptation responds to the needs of intergenerational living.

With an internal courtyard at its core, this new home for a family of five is equal parts ordered and elastic, providing space for living, working and making in the Sydney suburbs.

On a traditional street in Melbourne’s west, a new house pairs pragmatic planning and cost-effective material use with surprising volume to reframe the dream of a suburban family home.

Taking complex site conditions in its stride, this compact worker’s cottage addition channels the suburb’s industrial character while crafting a surprisingly secluded urban sanctuary.

This resourceful alteration forgoes the temptation to build anew, instead recalibrating a Victorian home and its 1990s addition to suit contemporary family life.

A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.

A rear extension to a worker’s cottage in inner-suburban Melbourne is a love letter to the Australian outdoors, recreating the feeling of camping in the bush.

Seemingly effortless yet upheld by unwavering structural logic, this understated new home invites easygoing living, like the simple beach shacks that inspired it.

Marrying heritage and modern elements in a cohesive gable-roofed addition, this project delivers an elegant yet effortless family home.

A new housing model in inner-urban Melbourne aims to provide renters with a pathway to ownership alongside high-quality design and shared resident facilities.

A commitment to principled repair and retention shaped the subtle but serious adaptive reuse of this historic Melbourne terrace.

Modest and purposeful, a medium-rise development in suburban Melbourne offers internal amenity and shows that design skill, not cost, determines the quality of a project.

A sculptural new volume balances timber-lined living spaces and discreet, operable machinery at this concept-driven home in suburban Melbourne.

Designed to support aging in place, a new home in Melbourne’s Eaglemont responds to its historically significant surrounds and immerses its owners in a tranquil garden setting.

A playfully edited 1980s house on the Mornington Peninsula is a refined seaside hideaway, inciting occupants to commune with nature and each other.

An undulating brick wall is a proud and protective edge to an exposed suburban site, enfolding a rich and unexpected domestic setting within a cohesive architectural gesture.

Delicate incisions reorganize an interwar home in Melbourne’s south-east, providing clever adaptability and welcome autonomy for its downsizing owner.

Freed from the confines of its Victorian-era order, an end terrace in Melbourne is respectfully reprogrammed to suit contemporary family life.

Faced with renovating a diminutive Victorian cottage in Hawthorn, this architect made the daring choice to abut bathroom and kitchen – with surprising results.

A systematic approach to renovations at this terrace house in Melbourne’s inner-north yields a rational yet flexible design that supports playful family living.

To reconnect their family to a cherished landscape, the owners of this site requested – and contributed to – a generous yet efficient home that makes the most of the surrounding landscape and local materials .

A singular house in the sky, this apartment pays tribute to the gilded optimism of the building’s 1970s architecture and its broader urban context, asserting a sophisticated vision of domestic life in the city.

“Better not bigger” was the tenet for the reimagining of this Melbourne home, with a design that subverts the typical terrace plan and prompts a recalibration of what one needs to live well.

A design collaboration across international borders has given birth to “an abstraction of the typical Australian farmhouse”: a cinematic building that thoughtfully responds to its bucolic setting on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Private yet permeable, defensive yet decorative, this lively new addition on a constrained Melbourne site both enriches family life and animates the neighbourhood.

The garden fence is reimagined as an inhabitable structure that collects a studio, a shed and a pool into one expressive, ribbon-like form, offering increased amenity and independence for multigenerational living.